How it works: The technology of touch screens

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Here's a question: What is a technology that you can't see, but is essential to smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices -- and is estimated to generate (according to DisplaySearch)? The answer is multitouch touch screens -- which have sparked the explosive growth of the mobile device market.

Gartner: Big data to drive US$28B of IT spending in 2012

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Big data will drive US$28 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012 and US$34 billion in 2013, said Gartner Wednesday.

GE polishes global strategy with local transformation

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General Electric (GE), founded 125 years ago, is one of the USA's iconic corporations. The firm has 300,000 employees working in areas ranging from aviation, healthcare, transportation, financials, and energy. The firm employs about 5,000 IT staff outside the USA."

Doc: Tech must meet the needs of patients and staff

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Like technologies deployed in a corporate environment, those used in healthcare are meant to improve services and productivity. On its new clinical management system (CMS 3), the aims to create new modules to meet patient needs and reduce risk in patient care.

Apple iPhone Passbook: The Future of Mobile Payments?

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Mobile payment has been hailed as the next great frontier for smartphones, and Apple has bet a chunk of the iPhone's future on its new Passbook app-a precursor to the mobile wallet.

Is RCS the way to go for telcos?

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By 2016, operators will have lost US$54 billion in SMS revenues due to the increasing popularity of social messaging services on smartphones, according to a forecast by Ovum, the global analyst company. This figure is more than double the US$23 billion they are expected to have lost by the end of 2012.

Google, Apple, and Microsoft are most attractive employer brands: LinkedIn

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Google is the world's most In Demand Employer brand, followed by Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Unilever, according to networking site LinkedIn.

Boundaries between IT outsourcing and BPO are becoming blurred: Ovum

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What is the potential impact of cloud on propositions of platform business process outsourcing (BPO)? Will it develop and merge into business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS)? According to research firm Ovum, the answer is yes.

FCC Paves Way for 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Service

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The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to revise a set of rules governing wireless spectrum to open a portion of the airwaves for mobile broadband service.

Plea hearing delayed again for Jobs' home break-in suspect

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The plea hearing for the man accused of breaking into the home of the late Steve Jobs has been delayed by a month on request of his lawyer.

How to move from Gmail to Outlook.com

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So you've decided you , so much so that you're ready to ditch Gmail and move your mail into Microsoft's camp. Easier said than done, right?

Amiga Forever makes retro gaming painless

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Personal computers have been around long enough to become a part of our history and shared social consciousness. As time marches on and older hardware dies, emulation is often the only way to experience these orphaned systems again. Amiga has been mourned more than most. Emulators are tricky business, however. Mastering and maintaining them can sap enough enthusiasm that you're left wondering why you bothered. Cloanto carefully sized up this common problem when putting together its Amiga Forever package, and the results are impressive. We looked at the $30 Plus edition ($10 Value and $50 Premium editions also available).

ACCC takes HP to the Federal Court

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken legal action in the Federal Court against Hewlett-Packard Australia Pty Ltd (HP) for alleged contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL).

Razer's Blackwidow Tournament Edition is great for gamers on the move

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The packs many of the high-end keyboard features gamers love, most notably a full and support for programmable macro keys, into a smaller, cheaper package.

Google turns its data centers into an art show

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Google is offering a look inside its data centers with a series of stunning photographs that would be more at home in an art gallery than a technology manual.

VMware extends support for ESX hypervisor in OpenStack

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SAN DIEGO - Continuing its commitment to the project and its newfound vision to support multiple types of cloud platforms, VMware announced support for its ESX hypervisor in OpenStack today.

Juniper trimming up for a sale?

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Those layoffs happening at might be to dress the company up for a sale.

The Week in iOS Accessories: See farther

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As you'd expect, accessories for the iPhone 5 are trickling out, and this week there are couple of new products that will help your new iPhone's camera see farther and better. But there's also plenty of other gear for making art or listening to music on your iOS device.

Using CDs and DVDs with a MacBook Air

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Reader Steven Lange loves his new MacBook Air except for one little thing. He writes:

Preview of Apple's 'A Little More to Show' event

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It seems that Apple hasn't finished creating products appropriate for the holiday season and beyond. How else can you explain next week's ? With press invitations issued earlier this week how do we respond? By speculating about what Apple might have up its corporate sleeve, of course.

FCC means business when it comes to illegal cellphone jammers

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued a warning in three languages against cellphone jammers this week, and just in case that wasn't clear enough, it employed public shaming, too.

Web-based debt relief operation settles FTC charges

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The owner of 17 websites purporting to offer debt relief to consumers has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that prohibits him from making deceptive claims.

Communities get social during emergencies

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If there's a brush fire or earthquake in California's Ventura County, city officials could be getting critical information from Twitter and residents could be receiving warnings on their smartphones.

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Microsoft today said it will ship a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 next month, but would not commit to a timetable for a final release.

Inside Intel, part 2: The future IT security workforce

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The future workforce will look somewhat different than the current workforce, according to Alan Ross, senior principal engineer at Intel.

Isis to roll out mobile payments on Monday

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The Isis mobile wallet network will launch Monday in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, the Isis consortium announced Wednesday after an earlier delay in the launch.

E-Mail Extortion: A Sordid Tale

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I have a paranoid security team. Which is good. I also have paranoid users who don't trust security people. Which is not so good. I discovered this a few years back when a co-worker came into my office, red in the face, eyes puffy and greatly upset. "What on earth is the problem?" I asked in my best official-yet-caring management voice. Between sobs, she explained that, a week earlier, she had gotten an e-mail about the then upcoming Olympics in Greece.

What's Common Between Internet Protocols and Harvester Ants?

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Recently, researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave in a way that is not dissimilar from the way Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for data transfer. They're calling them the 'Anternet'.

FCC clears the way for AT&T to use untapped spectrum

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve an agreement that will bring an end to a 15-year fight over interference concerns over mobile broadband service in the 2.3GHz band of spectrum.

Windows 8 Tablets in the Enterprise: The Pros and Cons

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In the two and a half years since the release of the first-generation iPad, tablets of various shapes and sizes have sparked a revolution among consumers, who are now no longer afraid to take their touch-enabled tablets to work.